February 2010 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 21. Maritime History: March to 31 July 1876
foremast and all attached. Made sail on the stump of foremast, and next day took a gale from SE during which the vessel began to leak badly. On the 6th
fell in with schooner
ONTARA, of Machias, and all hands were taken on board, and ten days after were transferred to a German barque bound to Savannah where they arrived February 25. The JAS. WALL was from Jacksonville, bound to New Haven, and has been passed twice since abandoned.
Schooner DANL. WEBSTER of Salem, 60 tons, has been sold to parties in Rockport, ME.
The Herald says that Capt. Henderson of Warren, sailed out of the Kennebec a few weeks since for Wilmington, NC, with a cargo of ice. While off Fire Island his vessel was struck by a squall. He was on the house at the time, and it is supposed lost his balance and fell over. It was impossible to render him any assistance on account of the gale. He was about 55 years of age and leaves a family of several children.
Schooner NELLIE TREAT of Bangor, from Cardenas for Delaware Breakwater, ashore on the bar below Wilmington, NC., was hauled off Friday, and towed up. She is dismasted, has lost both anchors and is leak- ing.
30 March The Storm
The gale of Sunday was very severe, and the accounts of disasters to Maine vessels is large.
A CAPTAIN AND HIS WIFE DROWNED. PORTLAND, ME, March 27. Schooner HARRIET NOWELL, Captain Kent, from Elizabethport for Bath with coal, went ashore on Bluff Island, Scarboro, at 2 o’clock Sunday morning, and went to pieces. Capt. Kent and wife were drowned, rest of crew were saved. They report a brig in company with them when they went ashore, and they afterwards picked up wrecked stuff, and suppose the brig wrecked. Name unknown. Schooner E. E. STIMPSON, New York for Portland, was to- tally wrecked off Cape Porpoise, Saturday night, Crew saved.
The HARRIET NOWELL was 123 tons, owned in Boston, coal laden, and was an- chored at Richmond Island. She broke her chains and drifted on to Bluff Island. The men landed at daybreak, and wished to rig a basket and haul Mrs. Kent ashore, but as the vessel lay easily on the rocks the Captain preferred to stick to her. When the tide rose the vessel pounded to pieces. Capt. Kent tried to save his wife on a spar, but she was washed away. He was last seen drifting seaward. Some fragments of the wreck came ashore at Blue Island, but every vestige disappeared from Bluff Island.
A ST. GEORGE SCHOONER IN DISTRESS. WASHINGTON, March 27. The signal ser- vice observer at Norfolk, reports that schoo- ner WHITNEY LONG of St. George, ME, Capt. E. W. Beckmore, was picked up in distress yesterday at Cranny Island. She lost her main-sail, mainboom, fore-rigging and chain-plates, and started head gear, vessel is tight. The cargo is all right, she towed here this afternoon for repairs.
THE CAPTAIN AND A SEAMAN OF A MACHIAS SCHOONER LOST.
, Lat. 36 deg. 40’, Long. 73 deg. 32’, spoke schooner LUCINEO of Machias, for Port- land, who reported that on March 20 during a gale in the night, the captain and one man were washed overboard and lost, at the same time the decks were swept of everything moveable. They wanted a navigator; so layed by them all night, but could no be boarded on
NEW YORK, March 27. The schooner J. C. BLAKE, from Turks Island, reports March 21st
account of the heavy sea. In the morning they were not in sight and we proceeded.
THE CREW OF THE D. TALBOT OF CAMDEN SAFE.
The DIRIGO, of Harrington from Marseilles, reports March 24th
, Lat. 35 deg.,
Long. 74 deg. 30’spoke the bark J. F. SMITH from Cienfuegos for Boston, having on board the crew of the schooner D. TALBOT of Camden, ME, which was dismasted and in a sinking condition on the 20. All were saved, including the captain’s wife and child. It was blowing so hard at the time that it was impos- sible to save anything but the clothing they had on. The J. F. SMITH was short of flour, which we supplied.
Searsport. …Work on the ship in yard of J. H. Lane has been suspended some days, awaiting the arrival of hard pine timber from the south…Ice harvesters are yet very busy gathering in and shipping large quantities of the frozen article…
SHIP NEWS MEMORANDA
Mr. N. T. Hill’s ship now building in Bucksport by Wm. H. Genn & Co., has been sold to Capt. Jabez H. Snow (late of ship ALICE BUCK), and others, of Bucksport, New York and London, and will be fitted for sea immediately in command of Capt. Snow.
6 April
SHIP NEWS MEMORANDA
British bark J. T. SMITH has brought into the port of Boston the officers and crew of the schooner D. TALBOT, of Camden, Capt. Amesbury. The TALBOT was aban- doned at sea in a sinking condition. She was consigned to Messrs. Hemenway & Browne of Boston, and sailed from Sadua on the 16th ult.
The schooner ALICE B. GARDNER of Bucksport, was dismasted and abandoned at sea March 23rd
. Capt. Gott, his wife and crew
were taken off by the bark ASSUMPTA, and arrived at Philadelphia Thursday. The ALICE B. GARDNER was a good vessel of about 225 tons, owned in Bucksport by E. B. Gardner and others. No insurance.
20 April
SHIP NEWS MEMORANDA
EASTPORT, April 17. The schooner BLACK WARRIOR, loaded here for New York, struck on the ledge at Deer Isle, break- ing her planking and sprung a leak in conse- quence of the buoy having been moved by the ice. HULL, (ENGLAND) April 15th
. The Ameri-
can brig MARY M. FRANCIS, from Portland, February 24, via Queenstown, struck on Dudgeon shoal yesterday and sunk. Captain Frances, two sailors and the cook were drowned. The rest of the crew were landed here.
WASHINGTON, April 5. The signal ser- vice observer at Cape Hatteras reports that the schooner SANDALPHIA, of Pembroke, ME, with a cargo of ice, from Rockport, MA, to Roanoke Island, run aground on Hatteras Inlet and sunk in eight feet of water, last night. The crew were saved.
27 April
Searsport. …The frame of a ship of some 1,500 tons, to be built by Capt. J. C. Nickels the present season, has arrived, and work on the same will commence in a few days. The ship building by J. H. Lane is progressing finely, and in due time one of the finest ships ever built with us will be added to the merchant marine of this place…
4 May
The Cape Ann Advertiser has an ac- count of a melee that occurred on board the schooner DANIEL WEBSTER of Salem, while on a fishing cruise to the Western Banks. The schooner recently put into Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the crew deserted her. The captain, Angus Nicholson, of Bucksport in this state, claims that he was obliged to put in, as his men were in a state of mutiny. The crew give a different version of the affair, and say that the captain was a desperado, and they were afraid of their lives. After some little difficulty in the early part of the voyage, one of the men says— “The trip progressed without any open outbreak, until the morning of the 18th
ult.,
when Powers, (one of the crew) having break- fasted at the first table and returned to his bunk, was accosted by the skipper and asked if he had had his breakfast. Powers replied that he had, and went on deck with his oil clothes, to await the appearance of the rest of the crew, to go out to the trawling grounds. Nicholson followed Powers on deck and asked him if he could spar, to which Powers replied in the negative, and said that he did not wish to speak to him (the skipper), if he could avoid it, during the trip. Thereupon Nicholson struck Powers twice in the face,
calling him a vile name, and on the second blow Powers clenched with his antagonist, threatening to knife him if he offered to bite. The two were separated, and the skipper went to the cabin, with a threat that he would ‘fix’ Powers. The latter went below to get his mittens, but was called on deck by the skip- per, who had returned from the cabin with a revolver in his pants pocket. Powers pro- ceeded to lower his dory, and noticing that the thole-pins were in, asked the boy to remove them, to which the captain objected; but Powers again ordered their removal, and they were taken out. “None of your bossing here,” cried Capt. Nicholson, taking out his revolver, but Powers, seeing his danger, im- mediately grappled with him, although too late to prevent his firing one shot, which fortunately failed to take effect. Chisholm and Patterson, (more of the crew) were a few yards from the vessel, in one dory, and Burke and Curtain in another, at this time, (all returning as soon as they noticed the melee) but Varley, Philbrook, McDonald and Khoss were stand- ing near by, and were all endangered by the firing. While the contestants were clinched Varley seized an opportunity while the skip- per as holding the revolver behind him to take
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